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I have no idea if you have subscriber specific benefits or not but I subscribed because this piece was just too good. Thank you for doing what you do.

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Apr 20, 2022·edited Apr 20, 2022

Would love to know how much $$$ Thiel and the Mercers are funneling to Glen Greenwald and his perpetual outrage machine. Does he get paid to by the post, does he get specific assignments or just a message to work a certain theme each week? Very curious.

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that whole "preaching to the people that want the choir sent to camps" just earned you 50 bucks from me. thanks, i look forward to more stuff like that.

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You commie rats are the ones who send people to camps and preach to the choir bastard! https://victimsofcommunism.org/

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FUCK YOU YOU FASCIST BASTARD

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What book!?!?! "All the President's Men"? "Scoop"? "Dwarf Rapes Nun, Flees in UFO"? Pretty much anything by Molly Ivins IRT the Texas Legislature? Don't leave me hanging, man!

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It's a really good book! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journalist_and_the_Murderer

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Hey Alex,

Y'know, I think I remember that being discussed when I had a subscription to CJR (my reading in grad school was somewhat eclectic as I was working on an environmental science degree at UAB).

Loved your work at Salon, by the way.

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Let’s not forget leftists smearing islamorealists as islamophobes! https://gettr.com/comment/c11g07184fc

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Fuck you Alex Pareene! How dare you accuse the right of wanting to destroy journalism! You leftists want to destroy Jorunalism! That’s why you laud radical leftists and ignore their depravity! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/novelist-norman-mailer-was-a-great-journalist-too/

https://www.commentary.org/articles/terry-teachout/norman-mailer-literary-hustler/

https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2013/09/13/how-the-death-of-saul-landau-a-supporter-of-repressive-communist-regimes-is-celebrated-by-the-major-u-s-newspapers-n184453

https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitewashing-the-black-panthers

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/25/archives/the-chomsky-problem-chomsky.html

http://www.paulbogdanor.com/250chomskylies.pdf

That’s why you ignore liberal critics of leftist icons!

https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/event/1619

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/why-conservatives-want-cancel-1619-project/618952/

https://www.investigativeproject.org/5762/sarsour-defenders-choose-to-ignore-march

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121333.html

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/revisionist-rip_b_440817

That’s why you ignore Blacks who reject leftism: https://www.academia.org/medias-continued-obsession-of-1619-project-ignores-1776-commission/

https://www.newsweek.com/listen-black-parents-furious-critical-race-theory-opinion-1601990

https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/kudos-to-black-and-white-parents-mounting-an-uprising-against-race-theory/

That’s why you continue to deny proven facts and state proven falsehoods!

https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/washington-post-tried-to-smear-me-for-criticizing-race-theory-and-failed/

https://areomagazine.com/2022/01/18/yes-children-are-being-taught-critical-race-theory-in-k-12-schools-in-the-us/

https://www.thecollegefix.com/yes-crt-is-taught-in-k-12-schools-heres-how/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10218133/Media-convicted-Kyle-Rittenhouse-campaign-lies-suit-liberal-agenda-says-Bari-Weiss.html

https://nypost.com/2021/11/17/10-debunked-heinous-lies-about-kyle-rittenhouse-devine/

https://reason.com/2020/01/21/covington-catholic-media-nick-sandmann-lincoln-memorial//

https://nypost.com/2019/01/21/case-of-the-covington-kids-is-a-perfect-example-of-media-bias/

https://nypost.com/2021/12/10/dont-expect-media-mea-culpa-too-eager-to-fall-for-jussie-smolletts-hoax/

https://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0809/Righty_bloggers_slam_MSNBC_over_gun_clip_network_responds.html

That’s why you smear Larry Elder and Candace Owens but ignore the racism and bigotry of Kendi and Hannah-Jones and Derrick Bell!

https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/racist-ravings-derrick-bell-john-perazzo/ http://www.thefamuanonline.com/2003/09/09/living-with-the-white-race/

https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/25/in-racist-screed-nyts-1619-project-founder-calls-white-race-barbaric-devils-bloodsuckers-no-different-than-hitler/

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/12/why-ibram-x-kendi-wont-be-cancelled/

https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/bu-professor-suggests-amy-coney-barrett-is-a-white-colonizer/

That’s why you obsess over January 6th and ignore BLM/antifa riots!

https://www.irvingweekly.com/s/3868/LTC-Allen-West-Condemns-Hypocrisy-Between-Antifa-BLM-Riots-and-the-Capitol-Protest.php

https://nypost.com/2022/04/17/democrats-are-campaigning-on-jan-6-hypocrisy/

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6293428750001

That’s why you attacked Trump for his racism but ignored Biden’s !

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/22/joe-biden-charlamagne-you-aint-black-trump-video

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n83694

That’s why you downplay the Black nationalism of Frank James and Darell Brooks

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/12/02/contrasting-coverage-of-waukesha-and-kenosha-shows-media-never-learns-its-lesson/

https://nypost.com/2022/04/14/media-downplays-accused-brooklyn-shooter-frank-jamess-hatred-of-whites/

That’s why you laud Castro and ignore the people suffering under his rule!

https://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675

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Have you read Alex’s work? Have you read Norman Mailer? I’ll give you a minute to do so, but if you come back with the FoxNews top 10 list and not stuff talking about how there’s too many cars in Brooklyn, being a war foreign war correspondent, or what it feels like to win two Pulitzer in two different categories (fiction and non-fiction), I would urge you to revisit them.

Also, not for nothing, but this long rambling response sorta proves the thesis of this piece.

Anyway, I urge you to check out the Mailer stuff at least. Lots of guns sex and money there to keep your attention. Report back, let me know how it goes, I can talk Mailer even to someone that thinks he might have worked for the post office. Thanks.

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